{"title": "A hard line to bend", "start": "2026-09-11T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Arts Centre", "address": "Arkwright Road 52, NW3 6DG London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "An exhibition of sculpture by Liz Larner, the first showing of her work at a major UK institution. The American sculptor presents works from roughly the last decade, including wall-mounted ceramic slabs and assemblages of single-use plastics alongside ceramic 'asteroids' named after female mythic figures. The show traces ideas of transformation, from ancient myth and cosmology to cycles of matter, and is anchored by a new work inspired by Lilith, incorporating a bronze-cast human hand, an owl foot and a branch from a tree by her studio. 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Its centrepiece is a new work inspired by the mythic figure Lilith, incorporating a bronze-cast human hand and owl foot and a branch from a tree by the artist's studio, alongside ceramic slabs and assemblages of discarded single-use plastics. Larner's intuitive use of clay, metal, wood and plastic proposes alternatives to humanity's current path through the Anthropocene.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-hard-line-to-bend-115876/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/de027f65c0e63df25d69522d0cf5d17a2efa2a45970cfc3780fae6a67dc8b7b6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Liz Larner A hard line to bend", "start": "2026-09-11T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Art Centre", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "\"A hard line to bend\" is an exhibition of sculpture by Liz Larner, the first showing of her work at a major UK institution. The American artist, born in 1960 and known for radical experiments in material and form, presents works mainly from the last decade, made in clay, metal, wood and plastic. Unfolding across a series of rooms, the show traces ideas of transformation, from ancient myth and cosmology to cycles of matter, and is anchored by a new work inspired by Lilith that incorporates a bronze-cast human hand, an owl foot and a branch from a tree near her studio.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/liz-larner-a-hard-line-to-bend-60156/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/de027f65c0e63df25d69522d0cf5d17a2efa2a45970cfc3780fae6a67dc8b7b6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Process Makes Practice", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "In the Building", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "\"Process Makes Practice\" is an event taking place in the building at Camden Art Centre. It is connected to the exhibition \"A hard line to bend\" by American sculptor Liz Larner, the first exhibition of her work at a major UK institution. The show brings together her sculptures from the last decade, spanning clay, metal, wood and plastic, and explores transformation, material processes and our embodied encounter with the world. Its centrepiece is a new work inspired by Lilith, incorporating a bronze human hand, an owl foot and a branch from a tree near the artist's studio.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/process-makes-practice-78578/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67e8e3729b3ecdace538eb998057d839179d6d3d0a837bcf53d5a361a67bbfb5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Family Takeover with Tom James", "start": "2026-11-21T11:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Camden Art Centre", "address": "", "price": "Free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "A family workshop inviting children and adults to make art together. Artist Tom James leads participants in building a large-scale sculptural marble run in Camden Art Centre's Drawing Studio. The collective kinetic sculpture, loosely inspired by Liz Larner's exhibition 'A Hard Line to Bend', is made from reclaimed tubes, pipes, bottles and funnels, echoing the playful work of Yves Tinguely and Fischli/Weiss. Each marble run is designed, tested and built before being disassembled, with activities for children aged 4 and up working alongside adults.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/family-takeover-with-tom-james-50257/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/847c225a0193b6ad8261a8b28560c91f050b4a375fd1be48723e033e02b2df71-2000.webp"}, {"title": "BSL Creative Workshop: Metamorphoses", "start": "2026-11-21T10:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Wallace Collection", "address": "Manchester Square, W1U 3BN London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "A hands-on creative workshop in British Sign Language at The Wallace Collection, where participants experiment with wax modelling to make their own sculptural forms. It is led by tutor Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq and takes its inspiration from the museum's display 'Metamorphoses: Porcelain Sculpture by Rachel Kneebone'. The session explores transformation, texture and organic shape, responding to connections between contemporary sculpture and the museum's historic treasures. All materials are provided, carers and companions are welcome, and the workshop is free though booking is essential.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/bsl-creative-workshop-metamorphoses-65941/", "official_url": "https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/events/bsl-creative-workshop-metamorphoses/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1207325e9655f0a4f30ef9ec0502eb510110830b7031e22ad03fb3153740b513-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Give and be generous with all your hand possesses", "start": "2026-11-20T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-02-06T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lisson Gallery", "address": "Bell Street 27, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture", "history/heritage-preservation"], "description": "An exhibition of new work by artist Dana Awartani, titled 'Give and be generous with all your hand possesses', held at Lisson Gallery in London. It is her first exhibition with the gallery, presenting floor-based sculptures and paintings on paper. Four installations continue her series of handmade mosaic floors, restoring now lost decorative mosaics from sites of worship or architectural importance that were destroyed in recent years. Working with stonemasons and artisans of Afghan, Pakistani and Syrian descent near Riyadh, she recasts geometric patterns in sun-dried clay as an act of preserving endangered cultural heritage in the wider Arab world.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/give-and-be-generous-with-all-your-hand-possesses-94950/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/54128544688a76dd14daff0506c1e75f5767315c5977b62e59b8b7cb1642bf5b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "SOFTCORE\\HARDCORE", "start": "2026-11-17T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "D Contemporary", "address": "Grafton Street 23, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "SOFTCORE\\HARDCORE is a group exhibition at D Contemporary presenting sculptures, paintings and installations by London-based and international artists. Curated by Jonathan Fakinos, it features Alexei Izmaylov, Igor Dobrowolski, Marc-Aurèle Debut, Florence Sweeney and Frida Wannerberger, whose works traverse tactile forms, consumption and illicit desire. Blurring the line between concept and aesthetics, the show confronts viewers with their sensitive side against their raw animal instincts, examining the haptic and the sensuality arising when forms follow 'function'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/softcorehardcore-95831/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bed79d1a72946acaa01bf523d306e0688b5e87b2165f650e80655fe7dbd84114-600.webp"}, {"title": "Faerdom: Now, As Ever", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration", "address": "Myddelton Passage 1, EC1R 1AG London", "price": "Adults £15, concessions available. Tickets include entry to all exhibitions. Members go free.", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture", "literature/fairy-tales"], "description": "Faerdom: Now, As Ever is a new exhibition blending UK folklore, viral memes and 3D printed sculpture. It is created by London-based duo Vince Ibay and Jessica Miller, who work together as Fromm Studio. Visitors travel through two co-existing spaces, 'Dystopia' and 'Utopia', meeting animated figures of ancient legend and myth, from Cornish piskies to a Pied Piper of Hamelin with TikTok-style dancing rats. The exhibition explores how the digital landscape is shaping our modern lives and asks whether humanity's oldest stories still resonate and can offer perspective and hope.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/faerdom-now-as-ever-38102/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5bf92ecfadc45a060caf679a9b762cc13905c9fdabbd2e925b9b9e09923bd708-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Paola Estrella: Deep Time Currents", "start": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Orleans House Gallery", "address": "Riverside, TW1 3DJ Twickenham", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media"], "description": "An exhibition at Orleans House Gallery running from early October to late November. It is a new iteration of Paola Estrella's ongoing project The Cenote Ring, bringing together painting, moving image, sound and garments. Rather than presenting nature as a static landscape, it proposes a world in constant movement, where memory, geology and imagination flow together. Moving between deep time and the present, the works reflect on cycles of creation and collapse, ecological fragility and the relationships between bodies, water and the Earth.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/paola-estrella-deep-time-currents-37645/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c4247e8454979896007e87739dc6f77a5198b985a436a962c7a4d0516c2ca389-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Alchemies: May Cockcroft, Nour Malas, Sarah Martin-Nuss", "start": "2026-11-13T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-23T00:00:00Z", "place": "Victoria Miro Gallery", "address": "Wharf Road 16, N1 7RW London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings by three emerging abstract artists, presented at Victoria Miro's London Gallery II as part of its Miro Presents programme. The title Alchemies refers to the ancient practice tied to artistic making, here bringing together fresh approaches to material, perception and form. May Cockcroft builds and excavates layered surfaces of plaster, chalk, marble dust and charcoal inspired by the coastline of her native Cornwall; Nour Malas creates richly coloured, emotionally charged canvases rooted in personal and collective history; and Sarah Martin-Nuss works across painting, performance and sound, layering oil and pastel marks that seem to shift like light and sound waves. The show runs from 13 November 2026 to 23 January 2027.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/alchemies-may-cockcroft-nour-malas-sarah-martin-nuss-40109/", "official_url": "https://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/684/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fbf01f8ef3a6aa0fe6f97a761501f41309fba92a56e80fc7f5f9ab15456e6ce5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "SCULPTING LIGHT", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Flow Gallery", "address": "Needham Road 1-5, W11 2RP London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art"], "description": "SCULPTING LIGHT is an exhibition by Celia Dowson and Yoriko Murayama at Flow Gallery. Murayama works with tied, unrefined silk that keeps a hard translucency while the scoured thread turns white and lustrous, creating a depth filled with light. Dowson's work has satin qualities that give it an artifactual feel, weathered and ground down over time, with material that feels like time, movement, landscape and light. The exhibition runs into January 2027.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sculpting-light-36120/", "official_url": "https://www.flowgallery.co.uk/blogs/exhibitions/celia-dowson-yoriko-murayama", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1a85ab7bbff4fe75d4e97e173ea92f5fadc9d53cb3ed86cf5d4b901e75534b12-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter", "start": "2026-09-10T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-22T00:00:00Z", "place": "South London Gallery", "address": "Peckham Road 65-67, SE5 8UH London", "price": "Free, no booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter is a solo exhibition of sculpture spread across the Main Gallery and the Fire Station of the South London Gallery. It is by the Polish artist Monika Sosnowska, whose work explores architecture and urban transformation, reflecting on the implosion of the communist regime in Poland and the legacy of modernism. It brings together monumental sculptures made from steel, concrete and other industrial materials, including large-scale hanging works suspended from the Main Gallery rafters, some weighing over half a tonne, alongside a sculpture of a collapsed black metal staircase and plant-like forms forming a concrete garden. Rarely seen paper models through which Sosnowska develops her ideas are shown for the first time in London as part of the exhibition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/monika-sosnowska-weight-of-matter-38704/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aed407625eae9c31cc7ceff20fc3d51280bec40a8ac2747daeae9e19a3e114c3-1200.webp"}]}